Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Beard and Harper Mickey Mouse Serials

I.N.D.U.C.K.S. credits "The Red Wasp Mystery" to Cecil Beard, which
gave a
starting point. As mentioned in the comments to my previous post on
them, I think it's easier to assume Beard and wife Alpine Harper, per
his text page for Murray Boltinoff, collaborated at this point to a
greater or lesser degree on everything rather than to assign stories
solely to one or the other.

Pluto's "Bourf! Bourf!" in WDC&S
330 echoes the Hounds in their
untiled Hounds and the Hare story in The
Fox and the Crow 83
(Dec-Jan/64). Goofy
echoes so many Fox and Crow (as well as Hound and Hare etc.)
stories' "Ooo-hoo-hoo" in #358. (The Crow says it on the first page of F&C
83.) Note the nonstandard
hyphenization
of
"Hoo-Doo"
both here and in the Scooby Doo story "The Fiery Hoo-Doo."

There are a number of serials later in this run, setting aside these
and Carl Fallberg's, that I can assign to one writing style, but can't
be sure enough to say it's that of Beard & Harper. Maybe more
on their style from other features will merge my two lists of writers'
data and I can credit those stories to them in the future.